Get Inspired!! General Links for Lesson Plan Development
Something for Everyone!!!
Brainy Betty: A plethora of free resources for designing professional looking PowerPoint presentations, websites, and other Office documents. **http://brainybetty.com/**
Buddy Project: Great Resources for teachers, students, parents. Links to lesson ideas and subject specific web sites. **http://buddyproject.org/**
CNYRIC Instructional Technology (BOCES): eLearning, MediaConnect, useful links, blogs, professional development and more. http://itd.cnyric.org
EasyTestMaker: FREE online test generator to help you create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections. http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx
EconEdLink (by Verizon's Thikfinity): leading source of online economics and personal finance lessons, and resources for educators, students and afterschool providers. The new site offers K-12 lessons, videos, data links and economic resources http://www.econedlink.org/
Educators Reference Desk: Lesson Plans by Subject, Resources, and Question Archive from Ask Eric http://www.eduref.org/
Education World-The Educator's Best Friend: Lesson Planning, Professional Development, Technology Integration, Administrators Desk, School Issues http://www.education-world.com/a_ lesson/
High Tech High's Projects - Project Based Learning that has taken place at all of the High Tech High Schools. It is their record of what their teachers have done and how to get there. Teachers can utilize this page to get ideas from others teachers. http://www.hightechhigh.org/unboxed/cards/
Internet4Teachers - Helping Teachers Use the Internet Effectively: Great site for links to high quality, free, internet resources created by teachers for teachers. http://www.internet4classrooms.com/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth (Lesson Plans, Scavenger Hunts, Web Quests, Assessments and Rubrics, etc.) http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide
School Notes.com: Easy-to-use no-cost tool which gives educators the ability to communicate school information on the World Wide Web for access by their community of parents and students. http://www.schoolnotes.com
Teacher Tap: Addresses co common technology integration questions by providing practical, online resources and activities. http://eduscapes.com/tap/
Thinkfinity (formerly MarcoPolo): This site is amazing!! Plethora of FREE standards-based lessons, interactives, 21st Century skills, and professional development information. http://thinkfinity.org/
TICAL: Technology Information Community for Administrative Leadership: TICAL's Resource Database contains over 800 carefully selected and annotated resources to help you find quality educational technology resources in a hurry. http://www.portical.org/
General Links for Lesson Plan Development
Something for Everyone!!!
Brainy Betty: A plethora of free resources for designing professional looking PowerPoint presentations, websites, and other Office documents.
**http://brainybetty.com/**
Buddy Project: Great Resources for teachers, students, parents. Links to lesson ideas and subject specific web sites.
**http://buddyproject.org/**
CNYRIC Instructional Technology (BOCES): eLearning, MediaConnect, useful links, blogs, professional development and more.
http://itd.cnyric.org
Dr. Alice Christie's Matrix of 320 WebQuests: Written by her students for all subject areas and grade levels
**http://alicechristie.org/edtech/wq/matrix/**
Digital Video in Education: Teacher Process, Student Process, Equipment, Internet Resources, Project Ideas
http://edtech.guhsd.net/video.html
The Discovery Channel: Lesson Plans – hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers.
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/9-12.html
Dynamic Digital Camera Use: Teaching strategies and example projects for using digital cameras in the classroom.
http://www.lincoln.k12.ky.us/lcms/digcamera.htm
EasyTestMaker: FREE online test generator to help you create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections.
http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx
EconEdLink (by Verizon's Thikfinity): leading source of online economics and personal finance lessons, and resources for educators, students and afterschool providers. The new site offers K-12 lessons, videos, data links and economic resources
http://www.econedlink.org/
Educators Reference Desk: Lesson Plans by Subject, Resources, and Question Archive from Ask Eric
http://www.eduref.org/
Education World-The Educator's Best Friend: Lesson Planning, Professional Development, Technology Integration, Administrators Desk, School Issues
http://www.education-world.com/a_ lesson/
http://www.hightechhigh.org/unboxed/cards/
Interactive Web Resources: Provides all curriculums links to cool interactive web resources.
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interactive.htm
Internet4Teachers - Helping Teachers Use the Internet Effectively: Great site for links to high quality, free, internet resources created by teachers for teachers.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/
Jenuine Tech - Creative Projects for the PreK-6 Classroom:
http://www.technospudprojects.com/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth (Lesson Plans, Scavenger Hunts, Web Quests, Assessments and Rubrics, etc.)
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide
The Lesson Plans Page: Over 2,500 free lessons and much more!
http://www.lessonplanspage.com
Map Generator: site for science and social studies teachers
http://nationalatlas.gov/maplayers.html
http://mathandmultimedia.com/multimedia/
Microsoft Office Templates
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx
School Notes.com: Easy-to-use no-cost tool which gives educators the ability to communicate school information on the World Wide Web for access by their community of parents and students.
http://www.schoolnotes.com
TeacherClicks.com: Free web based tools and resources for the K-12 Teachers.
http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/TeacherClicks/
Teacher Tap: Addresses co common technology integration questions by providing practical, online resources and activities.
http://eduscapes.com/tap/
Thinkfinity (formerly MarcoPolo): This site is amazing!! Plethora of FREE standards-based lessons, interactives, 21st Century skills, and professional development information.
http://thinkfinity.org/
TICAL: Technology Information Community for Administrative Leadership: TICAL's Resource Database contains over 800 carefully selected and annotated resources to help you find quality educational technology resources in a hurry.
http://www.portical.org/